Crossword-Solution: CHITA 5 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But the pious woman's heart smote her the next moment for that first harsh word;--and she caressed the motherless one, consoled her, cheered her, and at last explained to her--I know not how--something very wonderful about the little figurine, something that made Chita's eyes big with awe.

And, one by one, most of Chita's little eccentricities were gradually eliminated from her developing life and thought.

But Chita's bird-bright eye had discerned a gleam of white in that direction; and she wanted to know what it was.

Fiddlers swarmed away as Chita advanced over the moist soil, each uplifting its single huge claw as it sidled off;--then frogs began to leap before her as she reached the thicker grass;--and long-legged brown insects sprang showering to right and left as she parted the tufts of the thickening verdure.

And Chita screamed and screamed, and fled in wild terror,--screaming all the way, till Carmen ran out to meet her and carry her home.